UnitedHealthcare and YES Housing Partnership Brings Innovative “Vive
Salud” Program to Residents of New Affordable-Housing Community in
Downtown Albuquerque

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Community leaders celebrate "Vive Salud," an innovative partnership with UnitedHealthcare and YES Housing that is connecting residents of The Imperial Building with resources to help them live healthier lives. L to R: Charles Milligan, CEO, UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of New Mexico; Senate Majority Whip Michael Padilla; YES Housing Executive Director Chris Baca; UnitedHealthcare mascot Dr. Health E. Hound; City Council President Ike Benton; County Commissioner Steven Michael Quezada; and City Councilor Klarissa Pena (Photo: David Martinez).

Community leaders celebrate "Vive Salud," an innovative partnership with UnitedHealthcare and YES Housing that is connecting residents of The Imperial Building with resources to help them live healthier lives. L to R: Charles Milligan, CEO, UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of New Mexico; Senate Majority Whip Michael Padilla; YES Housing Executive Director Chris Baca; UnitedHealthcare mascot Dr. Health E. Hound; City Council President Ike Benton; County Commissioner Steven Michael Quezada; and City Councilor Klarissa Pena (Photo: David Martinez).

UnitedHealthcare employees and residents of The Imperial Building plant flowers for pollination for a rooftop garden funded through a grant by UnitedHealthcare and YES Housing. L to R: UnitedHealthcare employees Sharon Tafoya and Mary Ann Hennigan, and The Imperial Building resident Vanessa Sanchez (Photo: David Martinez).

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Residents, community leaders and program partners YES Housing and
UnitedHealthcare celebrated “Vive Salud,” an innovative partnership that
is connecting residents of The Imperial Building with resources to help
them live healthier lives.

UnitedHealthcare provided a $15,000 grant, matched by YES Housing, to
hire an onsite healthy-living coordinator to manage a rooftop garden and
healthy-living program. In addition to the rooftop garden, which
produces fresh fruits and vegetables for residents, the program includes
regular cooking classes, exercising with fitness instructors, visits to
the grocery store to learn about healthy food choices, and assistance
for residents to help ensure they have access to available health and
wellness programs.

During the event, UnitedHealthcare employees, along with mascot Dr.
Health E. Hound, joined residents to highlight some of the benefits of
“Vive Salud,” helping plant vegetables in the new rooftop garden and
participating in exercises and a healthy cooking demonstration.

UnitedHealthcare was the largest investor in The Imperial Building,
providing $12 million for the new mixed-use affordable housing community
with 74 apartments and a grocery store, that opened in the heart of
downtown Albuquerque in 2016. It’s part of $42 million UnitedHealthcare
has invested to build six affordable-housing communities in New Mexico.

About UnitedHealthcare

UnitedHealthcare is
dedicated to helping people nationwide live healthier lives by
simplifying the health care experience, meeting consumer health and
wellness needs, and sustaining trusted relationships with care
providers. The company offers the full spectrum of health benefit
program for individuals, employers,
military service members, retirees and their families, and Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries,
and contracts directly with more than 1 million physicians and care
professionals, and 6,000 hospitals and other care facilities nationwide.
UnitedHealthcare is one of the businesses of UnitedHealth
Group (NYSE: UNH), a diversified Fortune 50 health and well-being
company. For more information, visit UnitedHealthcare at uhc.com or
follow @myUHC on
Twitter.